Mike Driver on the Entrepreneurial Mindset and the Futility of Predictions

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Mike Driver (@mdvex) is a serial entrepreneur. He grew a two-person print management business from 2 to 250 staff before selling a minority stake to ECI Private Equity in a £50m deal within 14 years. Mike is now the Chairman of Convex Capital and has helped to sell over £1.5bn worth of owner managed businesses. He is also heavily involved in, and is a regular contributor to, Kilkenomics, the Festival of Comedy and Economics which takes place in Kilkenny in Ireland every year.

In this episode, we discuss:

Psychopathy and the Entrepreneurial Mindset
Forecasting, Brexit and Tax Avoidance

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Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@failinghuman) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.

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0:35.0	and this is a show for you if we're bored of watching people
0:42.2	on the internet having arguments over subjects
0:44.5	they know nothing about.
0:46.3	At trigonometry, we don't pretend to be the experts.
0:49.0	We ask the experts.
0:50.5	Our brilliant guest this week is a serial entrepreneur. Mike Driver, welcome to
0:54.8	technology. Good morning, thanks for having me. Yeah, it's good to have you here.
0:58.1	You've given away the time of the day that we record the show at, so now people
1:02.1	know how to chase us down good no problem yeah well we
1:05.9	open with a joke you're right you're set mate all over again yeah it's exactly the experience I have every night.
1:15.0	Now, for we obviously know and love you, but tell everybody who hasn't seen you before,
1:20.0	who are you, what do you do, what's your background, what's's your story how are you in the seat that you find yourself in now?
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